Over three months after Jayalalithaa’s death, over five months after she was first hospitalised, the Tamil Nadu govt has released the health records of the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.
The govt has combined reports from two hospitals - Apollo and AIIMS - and released it on Monday.
Talking about how she was hospitalised, the report says, "Apollo Hospital received a call at around 10pm on 22 nd September, 2016 from the residence of the late Honourable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and when the ambulance reported there and they found that the late Hon’ble Chief Minister was breathless with low oxygen saturation resulting in drowsiness."
According to the reports, Jayalalithaa had atopic dermatitis - which is a chronic eczematous skin disease that usually begins in childhood. Acute atopic dermatitis produces weeping, oozing plaques of very itchy skin. Often an inherited condition, patients with atopic dermatitis seem to have a misguided immune response.
A team of 18 doctors from Apollo hospitals treated Jayalalithaa. Seven doctors from AIIMS, 12 other specialists from various hospitals including Dr KM Cherian and Dr Richard Beale were also part of her medical team. There were doctors from TATA Memorial Hospital Bombay, CMC Vellore, Hinduja Hospital Mumbai, Johns Hopkins Hospital USA and Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.